Jane MacQuitty: Where serious wine buyers shop

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Where do billionaires go shopping for wine? You could be forgiven for thinking they stick only to the most recherche auction rooms, and certainly the punters who splashed out £192,000 for a bottle of 1947 Cheval Blanc and £297,000 for a bottle of the cult California 1992 Screaming Eagle can’t have been short of a bob or two. Yet judging by the handful of super rich that I spoke to at a recent charity auction, you’ll find them in less obvious places too. One told me he does his wine buying at Laithwaite’s Wine, better known to readers of this